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Biography/Life and Career
Several years after graduating, Hoover moved to 471 West End Ave, Manhattan, New York, in 1962, supporting herself as a freelance fluteist and music teacher. She taught flute at the preparatory division of the Juilliard School and also at several other small schools, including the Third Street Music School from, 1962 to 1967. In 1964, she married John Christopher Schwab, (m.1964-1972).

1970s
Hoover's career as a composer began slowly. As a scholastic student, she had been unaware of any notable contemporary classical female composers. A decade later, after settling in New York, she published her first work, Three Carols (1972), for SSA chorus and flute, through Carl Fischer. During this period, she worked as a freelance flutist for multiple ballet and opera companies.

From 1969 Hoover taught flute and music theory at the Manhattan School of Music (1969-1984). During this time, she analyzed a wide range of music scores and learned a great deal about compositional techniques. She also continued her graduate studies and earned a Master of Music in Music Theory in 1973. For the last eleven years, Hoover served as a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music.

Hoover was actively involved with women's arts organizations and dedicated her efforts to promoting the works of women composers to the public. In 1977, she collaborated with the Women's Inter-Art Center in New York and organized three festivals, namely Festivals I, II, and III of Women's Music. These festivals showcased the music of 55 women composers, both historical and contemporary.

In 1978, Hoover became a finalist for the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award's Outstanding New American Chamber Work for her piano trio titled, Trio (1978). She repeated this achievement the following year while was also awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Composer's Fellowship in 1979.

1980s
During the 80s Hoover continued to compose, teach, perform, while expanding her horizons as an entrepreneur. In 1982, Hoover was commissioned as a Performing Residency at Artpark in Lewiston, New York (near Niagara Falls) where she composed Reflections for unaccompanied flute. Her teaching continued, instructing theory and composition to graduate students as a faculty member at Teachers College, Columbia University (1984-1989). The New York Concerto Orchestra premiered her work Summer Night (Nuit d'Ete) outdoors in Lincoln Center in 1985. The following year in 1986 the Harrisburg Symphony with Larry Newland conducting premiered Eleni, which is based on Nicholas Gage's book of the same name.

Two of Hoover's works gained notoriety in 1987 and 1988. Her composition Medieval Suite for flute and piano, Inspired by Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror:The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, won the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition winners in 1987. The same year Eddie Daniels premiered Clarinet Concerto with Santa Fe Symphony. Then in 1988 Hoover cofounded Papagena Press with her husband (Richard Goodwin, married in 1985) to publish her works. The Medieval Suite arranged for flute and orchestra, premiered by Christina Smith with Reno Symphony with R. Daniels, conducting, November 1989.

1990s
The early '90s were especially rewarding for Katherine. Papagena Press published its first piece, Kokopeli (1990), a solo flute composition inspired by Kokopelli, the Hopi tribe and the American Southwest. It would become Hoover's most famous and published piece, winning the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition in 1991. During an interview Katherine shared, Out of all of my achievements in music, I was overcome with the success of Kokopeli. Written in New Mexico in 1990, the piece holds international renown and exemplifies the culture of Native Americans and their music. Katherine was overjoyed when one of her peers deemed her composition a "whole new genre of music for the flute".

Having attended the Conductors Institute in South Carolina, She becomes active as a conductor leading performances of her work and others in Wisconsin, West Virginia, and New York, and Pennsylvania.

The following year Hoover composed Canyon Echos for flute and guitar mixed duet. Inspired by Michael Lacapa's book The Flute Player which retells the folktale of two young Apache who first meet at a Hoop Dance, it won the NFA Newly Published Music Award in 1993.

The following year Hoover's work written for the Huntingdon Trio titled Lyric Trio won the NFA Newly Published Music Award, 1994. In January 1994, Katherine conducted the premiere of her Night Skies, a 25-minute work for a large orchestra, with the Harrisburg Symphony. Later that same year, Katherine was honored with the Academy Award in Music by the Academy of Arts and Letters.

In the fall of 1995, she traveled to Bratislava for the recording of her Night Skies and Eleni: A Greek Tragedy, then returning to watch her composition, Dances and Variations being featured in the 1996 Emmy-winning PBS documentary titled New Music. Director Deborah Novak traced the commissioning, rehearsal, and premiere of the work at the Kennedy Center by Wendell Dobbs and Larry Odom. Dances and Variations was commissioned by Dr. & Mrs. James P. Carey and Marshall University.

Later that year, Hoover's efforts supporting women's arts was awarded by being selected composer in residence for the Fourth Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1996).

Inspired by a picture by the marvelous artist Maria Buchfink of a Native American flute player; from his flute rises a cloud of kachinas and totem spirits, Hoover composed Winter Spirits for unaccompanied flute. This work premiered by Jeffrey Khaner, NFA Convention, 1997.

2000s
It won the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition in 1991 and is one of six NFA Newly Published Music awards received by Hoover.

(2006) Two for Two

An interview with E. Grames delves into this topic in greater depth ((August 2016). "Women's Work - A Conversation with Composer Katherine Hoover" .Fanfare: The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors. pp. 82–98.).

2010s
Hoover had always written poetry since her youth finding both a striking difference and similarity between music and words. "This Way About"(2015). was her first book of poetry where she shares glimpses into her life.

As a flutist, Katherine has given concerto performances at Lincoln Center and performed with leading ballet and opera companies in New York's major halls. She has played numerous recitals, both live and on radio and television.

Katherine was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the International Alliance for Women in Music, the National Flute Association, the Conductor's Guild, and Member Laureate - Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity.

Her retirement from performance in 2012 gave Kathrine great freedom to work on her poetry, once again demonstrating versatility in her profession. Katherine became a published author in 2015, with her poetry book This Way About being published as an Editor's Choice.

Lifetime Achievement Katherine was the recipient of the National Flute Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. According to the NFA, ten of Katherine's pieces received Newly Published Music competition nominations.

Katherine Lacy Hoover passed away in 2018 and is survived by her husband, Richard Goodwin, son, Norman Daniel Schwab and three grandchildren (2020) Canyon Shadows (co-winner)

Later in her career, Katherine, as a member and board member of The New York Flute Club, wrote that she owed much of her success to her mentor, William Kincaid, who taught her more about music than any other composer.

Hoover had always written poetry since her youth finding both a striking difference and similarity between music and words. "This Way About"(2015). was her first book of poetry where she shares glimpses into her life.

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